Staff Frontend Engineer, Grafana Frontend (Remote, USA EST)

The Grafana Frontend team is responsible for the overall UX experience of the Grafana Platform. Our squads take care of dashboards, visualisations, navigation, sharing experience, search, and content organisation.

As a Staff Software Engineer in one of our squads, you will take on a leadership role, working collaboratively with other team leaders and members to develop and enhance our product.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. You'll also have the opportunity to work across the Grafana Frontend team and partner with other squads within the Grafana department to drive innovation and solve complex engineering challenges. Come and join us if you’re passionate about anything and everything Grafana, data visualisation, and OSS.

A Typical “day In The Life” Includes

• Taking an active role in influencing our roadmap by engaging with internal stakeholders, customers and the OSS community
• Mentoring and supporting other team members, participating in product and process discussions and collaborating with the team.
• Taking ownership of your career and growth and working with your manager to identify relevant opportunities.
• Writing clear design documents for upcoming solutions and reviewing those from others.
• Participating in your team’s on-call rotations, supporting the operations and reliability of the solutions we build.
• Providing technical support in customer escalations and helping us identify areas of high friction to address.
• Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Department.

What We Are Looking For

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication. The ability to clearly communicate in English (both written and verbal) is critical.
• You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful.
• You take responsibility for operating the software you have built. You are open to joining our on-call rotations and have experience supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents as needed.
• You easily build an understanding of the user’s context and goals which will help you build the simplest solution that brings the biggest value to them.
• You know how to transform ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and deliver large projects.
• You are a self-driven individual who understands the power of feedback loops in making roadmap decisions and driving our product forward.
• You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows.
• You have an active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs and Traces) and have experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms.
• You enjoy learning, growing, and supporting others to do the same.
• You appreciate efficiency and strive to identify and utilize the most effective tools for the task at hand. You naturally share your use of these tools with your team to maintain transparency and growth.
• You care about our community of users and contributors and are keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor.

What We Use

Grafana is mostly open source, you can browse grafana/grafana on GitHub directly to see how we build our software, here are the highlights:

• We work with React as our framework, Typescript, Redux, and RxJS
• Rendering libraries such as uPlot, D3.js, Lodash and OpenLayers
• We use Golang for backend code, Docker and Kubernetes for infrastructure

In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 168,256 - USD 201,907. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

• Compensation ranges are country-specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

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